Description
26 weeks of hands on literacy play for 2 and 3 year olds, with one new word every week and the same calm routine all year. 910 pages of letter play plus 2 bonus files you only get here: a 116 page keepsake kit and a 5 page progress book.
Built for daycare, home learning, and twos classrooms, with observation and family pages in every week.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
► 1,031 pages in total, in 28 PDF files: 26 letter packs of 35 pages each (910 pages), the My First Letter Book Portfolio (116 pages), and the A to Z Progress Book (5 pages)
► Every letter includes: Just a Dot, Not a Lot, Trace the picture, Big and Small Letter, Drive the Letter roads, Dot the picture, Build the Letter, Find and Color the Letter, Find the Shadow, Big and Small, Which One Starts with the Letter?, Trace to the Letter, My First Cutting Page, a play dough mat, letter cards, a wall poster, and a handprint keepsake
► The 26 words: apple, bee, cat, duck, elephant, frog, grapes, house, igloo, jellyfish, key, lion, mouse, nest, octopus, pig, queen, robot, sun, tomato, umbrella, volcano, watermelon, xylophone, yarn, and zebra
► Format: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in), with A4 Fit to Page guidance
BUNDLE BONUSES, NOT SOLD WITH THE SINGLE LETTERS
► My First Letter Book Portfolio, 116 pages: a keepsake portfolio built one letter at a time
◆ My Alphabet Journey, My 26 Words, and Look What I Did pages
◆ A My Week with divider and a Letter Star certificate for every letter, A to Z
◆ An I Met the Letter record for all 26 letters, with Not yet, With help, and On my own
◆ An I Met All My Letters certificate and binder spine labels
► A to Z Progress Book, 5 pages: the whole year on two sheets, one row per letter, plus an Our 26 Words vocabulary log
OBSERVATION AND FAMILY PAGES
Every letter pack ends with three black and white pages you print fresh each week:
◆ How to Use the Observation Pages, print once and keep it in the folder
◆ This Week I Saw, a one page observation record, one per child
◆ A Note Home, the family page with three five minute ideas to try at home
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
A toddler does not learn a letter in a day; she learns the shape of a week. The same activities come back every Monday, so by the fourth letter she already knows what the dot page is and reaches for the dot marker herself. That rhythm is what a single letter pack cannot give you.
Plan once, print by the week, and file as you go: the observation pages, the portfolio, and the progress book turn the year into something you can show a family or a licensing visitor.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Tot school and homeschool
◆ Toddler and twos classrooms, preschool 3s
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Morning tubs
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice with a grown up nearby
◆ Busy bags and quiet time
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Letter recognition, uppercase first, with lowercase shown beside it
◆ Beginning sound awareness, heard and named out loud, never tested
◆ Fine motor control: pincer grasp, finger isolation, and hand strength
◆ First scissors skill: the single snip, which comes long before cutting on a line
◆ Visual discrimination: matching a picture to its shadow and one letter against another
◆ Pre-writing control: following a wide road from start to finish with one finger
◆ Vocabulary: one new word per letter, repeated in play all week
◆ Following a one step direction
QUICK PREP
Most activities are print and go. A grown up cuts the pieces on the build, shadow, and card pages, and you can laminate the poster, the letter cards, and the play dough mat (for reusable durability).
✥ SHOP EACH LETTER
▸ Toddler Letter A of the Week: A Is for Apple
▸ Toddler Letter B of the Week: B Is for Bee
▸ Toddler Letter C of the Week: C Is for Cat
▸ Toddler Letter D of the Week: D Is for Duck
▸ Toddler Letter E of the Week: E Is for Elephant
▸ Toddler Letter F of the Week: F Is for Frog
▸ Toddler Letter G of the Week: G Is for Grapes
▸ Toddler Letter H of the Week: H Is for House
▸ Toddler Letter I of the Week: I Is for Igloo
▸ Toddler Letter J of the Week: J Is for Jellyfish
▸ Toddler Letter K of the Week: K Is for Key
▸ Toddler Letter L of the Week: L Is for Lion
▸ Toddler Letter M of the Week: M Is for Mouse
▸ Toddler Letter N of the Week: N Is for Nest
▸ Toddler Letter O of the Week: O Is for Octopus
▸ Toddler Letter P of the Week: P Is for Pig
▸ Toddler Letter Q of the Week: Q Is for Queen
▸ Toddler Letter R of the Week: R Is for Robot
▸ Toddler Letter S of the Week: S Is for Sun
▸ Toddler Letter T of the Week: T Is for Tomato
▸ Toddler Letter U of the Week: U Is for Umbrella
▸ Toddler Letter V of the Week: V Is for Volcano
▸ Toddler Letter W of the Week: W Is for Watermelon
▸ Toddler Letter X of the Week: X Is for Xylophone
▸ Toddler Letter Y of the Week: Y Is for Yarn
▸ Toddler Letter Z of the Week: Z Is for Zebra
TERMS
© Teacher Natalie - iLovePreK. For personal use only: classroom, childcare/daycare, and homeschool use with your own children or students. One purchase covers one home or one single classroom; please do not post the files online. Schools with 5 or more teachers can write to [email protected] for a multi classroom coupon.